Not long ago I had a chance to visit the big data center at 365 Main Street in San Francisco. I was invited by friends to help them install the first servers for their startup, which is still in stealth mode. The data center was enormous, though my friends occupied only a small part of one rack not far from the Oakland Raiders and one floor up from Bebo, the social network bought not long ago by AOL. Bebo is a big hit in the UK and I found it odd that all those British profiles are hosted in San Francisco, eight time zones away.
We installed the servers — three little boxes and one big […]
So Oracle ends up owning Sun Microsystems. I couldn’t believe it at first, thinking somehow that it was all just a ploy to get IBM to pull out the Big Checkbook. And while the deal may have begun with that thought glowing in the mind of Jonathan Schwartz, it ends with the heart of Sun moving a few miles up 101 to where it will certainly die.